Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy Collectionhttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/ESDC/browse/?fq=untl_institution:UNT&fq=dc_rights_access:public&fq=str_title_serial:Our+Changing+Planet2010-03-17T11:44:15-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: Environmental Policy CollectionOur Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 20092010-03-17T11:44:15-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11984/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11984/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2009" title="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2009" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11984/small/"/></a></p><p>The report describes activities and plans of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), highlighting recent progress in each of the program's research and observational elements. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being improved and used to create tools to support decision making at local, regional, and national scales to cope with environmental variability and change.</p>Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 20102010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11985/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11985/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2010" title="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2010" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11985/small/"/></a></p><p>The report describes the activities and plans of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which incorporates the U.S. Global Change Research Program established under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and the Climate Change Research Initiative that was established by the President in 2001. CCSP coordinates and integrates scientific research on climate and global change supported by 13 participating departments and agencies of the U.S. Government. The document highlights recent advances and progress supported by CCSP-participating agencies in each of the program's research and observational elements, as called for in the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program released in July 2003, and later modified in the 2008 CCSP Revised Research Plan. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being improved and used to create tools to support decisionmaking at local, regional, and national scales to cope with environmental variability and change.</p>Our Changing Planet: The FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program2010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11978/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11978/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program" title="Our Changing Planet: The FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11978/small/"/></a></p><p>This report, prepared under the auspices of the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), highlights the Program's recent research and describes future plans and goals. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1989 and authorized by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The first edition of Our Changing Planet was transmitted to the Congress as a supplement to the FY1990 budget. In just over a decade, the USGCRPhas generated remarkable improvements to our knowledge of Earth's global-scale environmental processes and helped identify and explain the causes and consequences of a series of global environmental changes, including ozone depletion and climate change.</p>Our Changing Planet: The Fiscal Year 2003 U.S. Global Change Research Program and Climate Change Research Initiative2010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11979/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11979/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The Fiscal Year 2003 U.S. Global Change Research Program and Climate Change Research Initiative" title="Our Changing Planet: The Fiscal Year 2003 U.S. Global Change Research Program and Climate Change Research Initiative" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11979/small/"/></a></p><p>This document is a supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2003 Budget. The report describes the activities and plans of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The report also describes the start-up activities for the U.S. Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI), established by President George W. Bush to accelerate research on climate change. The CCRI supplements the ongoing USGCRP work by providing focus and targeting resources to areas where significant 2 to 5 year improvements in decision-relevant information are possible.</p>Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 20052010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11980/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11980/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005" title="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11980/small/"/></a></p><p>This edition of Our Changing Planet includes a review of the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) from 2003 and outlines how the CCSP is moving forward to implement the Strategic Plan during FY 2004 and FY 2005. As a part of this implementation, the report announces the production of 21 scientific syntheses and assessments on a range of topics to support informed discussion of climate variability and associated issues by decision makers and the public.</p>Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 20062010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11981/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11981/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2006" title="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2006" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11981/small/"/></a></p><p>This Fiscal Year 2006 edition of Our Changing Planet describes a wide range of new and emerging observational capabilities which, combined with the Climate Change Science Program’s analytical work, lead to advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change. The report highlights progress being made to explore the uses and limitations of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability, and documents activities to promote cooperation between the U.S. scientific community and its worldwide counterparts.</p>Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 20072010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11982/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11982/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2007" title="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2007" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11982/small/"/></a></p><p>This Fiscal Year 2007 edition of Our Changing Planet describes a wide range of new and emerging observational capabilities which, combined with the Climate Change Science Program’s analytical work, lead to advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change. The report highlights progress in exploring the uses and limitations of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability, and documents activities to promote cooperation between the U.S. scientific community and its worldwide counterparts.</p>Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 20082010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11983/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11983/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008" title="Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11983/small/"/></a></p><p>This report describes the activities and plans of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which incorporates the U.S. Global Change
Research Program, established under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and the Climate Change Research Initiative, established by the President in 2001. CCSP coordinates and integrates scientific research on climate and global change supported by 13 participating departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.
The document describes a wide range of advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change, such as advances in understanding of climate change at high latitudes. It also describes progress on understanding the ongoing
and projected effects of climate change on nature and society, including the interconnected relationships between climate, forests, and wildfire. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being improved and used to create tools to
support decision making at local, regional, and national scales to cope with environmental variability and change.</p>Our Changing Planet: The FY 2002 U.S. Global Change Research Program2010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11929/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11929/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: The FY 2002 U.S. Global Change Research Program" title="Our Changing Planet: The FY 2002 U.S. Global Change Research Program" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11929/small/"/></a></p><p>This document, which is produced annually, describes the activities and plans of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was established in 1989 and authorized by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990. Strong bipartisan support for this inter-agency program has resulted in more than a decade's worth of scientific accomplishment. "Because there is considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how the climate system varies naturally and reacts to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, current estimates of the magnitude of future warming should be regarded as tentative and subject to future adjustments (either upward or downward). Reducing the wide range of uncertainty inherent in current model predictions of global climate change will require major advances in understanding and modeling of both (1) the factors that determine atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and (2) the so-called 'feedbacks' that determine the sensitivity of the climate system to a prescribed increase in greenhouse gases. There is also a pressing need for a global system designed for monitoring climate. Climate projections will always be far from perfect. Confidence limits and probabilistic information, with their basis, should always be considered as an integral part of the information that climate scientists provide to policy- and decision-makers. Without them, the IPCC SPM [Summary for Policymakers] could give the impression that the science of global warming is 'settled,' even though many uncertainties still remain. The emission scenarios used by the IPCC provide a good example. Human dimensions will almost certainly alter emissions over the next century. Because we cannot predict either the course of human populations, technology, or societal transitions with any clarity, the actual greenhouse gas emissions could either be greater or less than the IPCC scenarios. Without an understanding of the sources and degree of uncertainty, decision makers could fail to define the best ways to deal with the serious issue of global warming.</p>Our Changing Planet: A U.S. Strategy for Global Change Research. A Report by the Committee on Earth Science to Accompany the President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget.2010-03-16T15:46:51-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11932/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11932/"><img alt="Our Changing Planet: A U.S. Strategy for Global Change Research. A Report by the Committee on Earth Science to Accompany the President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget." title="Our Changing Planet: A U.S. Strategy for Global Change Research. A Report by the Committee on Earth Science to Accompany the President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget." src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11932/small/"/></a></p><p>This report by the Committee on Earth Sciences presents an initial strategy for a comprehensive, long-term U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report is to Accompany the U.S. President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget.</p>